When we hear that someone spent a lot of dollars/euros for a pair of shoes we ask ourselves if it’s worth it; in this case there is only one answer to this question: yes, it’s worth. If we say “Doernbecher” every sneakerhead knows what we are talking about, for the others we have to give some detail.

Since 2004, Nike joins forces with the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital to give to its young patients the opportunity to create personalized makeups of some Nike’s silhouette. Profits of the sneakers are used to support various aspects of hospital practice. The new collection will be unveiled October 23th, but in these days, until June 21th, there is the chance to make a bid on eBay to win one of the eleven Dunks that the hospital and the Swoosh have designed to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of their partnership. The auction is started June 11th and every single pair quickly reached high prices … too quickly and too high; Nike had some suspect about this fact, because it’s true that by now the DB releases create a lot of hype, but it’s strange that in few hours the sneakers can reach so high prices (we are talking about hundred thousand dollars!). The investigation confirmed that many bid were fake, so Nike had to reset the auction.

While we are waiting to know who will win the auctions, let’s go to analyze this “charity sneaker”. Nike applies to this Dunk a concept that it’s started from this sneaker in 2007; it’s a “What The Dunk” High Doernbecher, a mix of 13 Nike SB created in this years in this project. We’ll try to describe every single piece of this Dunk to tell you where it came from. Which part do you prefer?